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Letter "K" » keener
«Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.»
«He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.»
«In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
alert, alerting, display, doctrines, inclination, in the United States, keener, on the alert, owned, threaten
«We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
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Dancing
| Keywords:
affirmation, affirmations, energize, energized, energizes, energizing, impart, keener, sensation, spectator, The Spectator, variety, vigor
«There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
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Society
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keener, keenest, revelation, Revelation of, treats
«A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Speech
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edge, edge tool, keener, keenest, sharp, sharp tongue, tool
«The keener the want the lustier the growth»
«There is one in the world who feels for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; there is one to whom reflected joy is better than that which comes direct; there is one who rejoices in another?s honor, more than in any which is one?s own.»
«A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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edged, edge tool, keener, mellows, sharp tongue, tart, tarts
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